Okay. I recently became a fish fanatic [I mean, I got a 2.5 gallon in May and quickly realized I had to go bigger and now I'm at a 20 gallon. I have no space to go any bigger, much to my disappointment] It's like a drug addiction, only waaay better for your health [not so much your wallet.]
Anyway. I have no friends to gossip, babble, rant or brag about my tank with. My boyfriend officially thinks I have a problem and is trained only to put X amount of food into the tank when asked. I want to discuss and talk about my fishies!
What do you have in your tank? How big is your tank? Lets chat! I am seriously needing to cure my fish bone.
Hello and Welcome to the forum
Good people on here and good advice for the asking
Are you keeping fresh or salt ? Both ?
I might suggest that you post a thread about a specific subject that you are interested in and I'm sure that you will start to get some good feedback and make some fish connections !
Welcome to the forum u are a prime canidate to be called a fish head
now do tell us what u got and remember pics or its not true...
look forward to hearing from ya...
I've got a bit of a strange freshwater setup right now.
I have a 20 gallon tank, a marineland heater, a penguin bio-wheel 150 filter. I've got anubias, lutea crypt, mondo grass [although I'm not sure how much longer it'll stick around] and some form of hydrocotyle. I've got a small piece of malaysian driftwood and several rocks.
I've got five harlequin rasboras, a variatus platy female, an ottocinclus, an amano shrimp, a male betta [who is incredibly friendly towards all his tank mates and has never taken a swipe at anyone] and a bristlenose pleco who is an inch in length and will eventually throw me over the edge in terms of stocking which I will have to deal with.
I am dealing with a bit of fin rot on my beautiful betta from my previous tank and he's healing very very slowly in a QT tank with aquarium salt treatments. I am not sure if he's healing or not, I really wish I did. There is webbing starting in the bits that were lost, so perhaps?
Anyway - that is my tank at the moment! I really am still new and learning things as I go, trying my best not to hurt anything or anyone in the process.
I've got five harlequin rasboras, a variatus platy female, an ottocinclus, an amano shrimp, a male betta [who is incredibly friendly towards all his tank mates and has never taken a swipe at anyone] and a bristlenose pleco who is an inch in length and will eventually throw me over the edge in terms of stocking which I will have to deal with.
Oh my! I come to warn you not to get any inverts as it would cause even deeper addiction an you admit to having amano! You're lost, I mean seriously no help for you, you're doomed to become a part of this fish cult for a looong time...
Wait until you get a taste of saltwater. Right now your on a gateway drug. I'm sure you think you can control your addiction right now and you just might be able too. But once you get into the salt it's like jumping to Herion. lol I've been hooked since late last year and now I get twitches if I'm away from it for too long. Lol gad damn!!!!
It's awful. I've managed to calm down a bit at the moment, but I have to praise myself every time I walk out of a pet store without a fish. I am already thinking ahead to the next generation of fish to dwell in my tank - I think I'll go with some semi-aggressive fellahs! A pearl gourami (seriously, so in love) and some green tiger barbs.. oh man, I am getting ahead of myself. For now, I love my peaceful dwellers and friendly betta fish.
I am staying away from salt. I feel like that would be my heroin. 100%. A friend of mine is all about reef tanks and I see those and die a little inside.
it will happen , first it will be the passive nice fish then the aggressive fish
then the planted tank and then the brackish fish tank ... u are half way there lol then it will happen .... wham right on the side of the head then u get to be a reefer just like us ...
cheers
tom
Welcome to our world Fish keeping is definitely a great hobby and relaxing too. I am a long time Betta owner/breeder and Shrimpaholic
OH YEAH...I started with a little 5 gallon with some cherry shrimps I won at an auction one year, and from there I think Ive now owned every kind of dwarf freshwater shrimp in the Industry.
Bred them, imported them, shown them....even tried to get out of them....
Im now back into them again bigtime.
They are one of the most addictive creatures on the earth, you can sit and watch what goes on in your tank for hours on end, its better than TV.
Ask as many questions on fish, plants, accessories, meds, what not on here and someone will help you out. Great Forum
Welcome to the GTA forum, I'm the smart@$$ that's gonna feed your addiction, you said you can't get a bigger tank because you have no room but you can always get a TALLER tank, you could get a tall hex or cube tank! Ha,ha gotcha thinking now, good luck not going bigger now!
and dont get me started on addictions... -__- as a student, owning multiple tanks has been a penny pinching, hunger games, little sleep addiction it seems. hahaha
A joy of this online community is the classified section. You save money on new gear and new stock for your tank, but also get to meet new people and see their own tanks on a regular basis.
And puh-leeze. No space? Then you knock down a wall. Or get rid of the refrigerator. There's always a way.
welcome, I'm sure you'll find lots of people in this forum to talk to. I find that that I get to personally talk and meet lots of great people when I buy or sell in this forum.
Welcome to the forum, it better to be fish addict then a drug addict for sure. I am a fish addict since the of age seven, 50years have past still very addicted. I started with gold fish then onto discus, now crazy for reef. All my money I spent on fishy stuff. I will die as a fish addict.
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